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A Toast To Those Who Are Gone
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Phil Ochs
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Many's the hour I've lain by my window
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And thought of the people who carried the burden
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Who marched in the strange fields in search of an answers
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And ended their journeys an unwilling hero
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Am Em Am G
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Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
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And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
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And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
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Back in the coal fields of old Harlan county
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Some talked of the union, some talked of good wages
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And they lined them up in the dark of the forests
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And shot them down without asking no questions
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Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
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And a toast of the wine to the end of the line
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And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
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And over the ocean, to the red Spanish soil
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Came the lincoln brigade with their dreams
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But they fell in the fire of germany's bombing
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And they fell 'cause no one would hear their sad warning
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Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
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And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
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And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
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In old Alabama, in old Mississippi
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Two states of the union so often found guilty
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They came on the busses, they came on the marches
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And they lay in the jails or they fell by the highway
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Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
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And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
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And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
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The state it was texas, the town it was Dallas
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In the flash of a rifle a life was soon over
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And nobody thought of the past million murders
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And the long list of irony(?) had found a new champion
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Here's a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
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And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
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And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
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